This is all an illusion.
But there is truth within illusions.
And when the illusion fades,
the truth will still resonate within you.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Day 2

Actual performance day! Wow! Woke up around 7 and thought we were gonna be late since the gathering time was 9am (930with the leeway Lopez gave?!) but in the end, everyone was late and we only started around 10+am. ms just got up, and his hair looked like the guy in the arigato gojaimasu mv person - i couldn't stop laughing. lol. helped style his hair a bit before we went to the rehearsal area.

yurineが褒められて嬉しいです。 err but maybe it was probably only positive greetings?! lol I was so scared I wouldn't be up to standard :( the wig was heavy to wear because it was made up of 1 main wig, 2 ponytails and 2 extensions, but my back hair kept moving to front, making my extensions seem very bulky urghhhh and the goggles keep falling down, covering my eyes. didn't really have other ideas on how to keep them up except to spam pins. (I hardly full test my costumes oops)

at the rehearsal place, only karas team was there, aiyoh! there was a little taokaka there, and she was pretty cute. i was very shocked to hear all the guys talk about the color of underwear she should be wearing though... and when she helped arrange sephiroth's hair... sephiroth buried his face in her boobs!!! he then told me 'namja ya' - and what?! he's a guy?!?!? what the!!!! and gosh he/she talks like a girl too!!! x_x omg i just got screwed. LOOK AT HOW CUTE S/HE IS!!!

since there was nothing to do i went around taking pictures :D

first with my idol! this is my most favourite picture taken!! *_*

bwwwwwwwwwwwwwhhh rain was otoha (eh these guys seriously don't put in any effort to look like their characters... x_x) and ok i know you have big chest, but don't need to stick it out right... ehyrrrshhh

he threw his sunglasses to me and i became rain for a while.

when the glasses were on ms, he totally became neo.

and then with Neo, from matrix. joked about me being trinity, and 0 to do morpheus. LOLLLLLLLLL agent smith leh?!

anyway, ms wanted ice cream, and as we were still considered pretty early even when it was already 1030 or so and there don't seem to be any rehearsal taking place, we went to walk around the park to get dippin dots. It's actually where he worked at, and he kept saying that he felt very embarrassed to go back since it was his day off. Haha. Chocolate dipping dots on him, yay!

We then went back to see everyone nua-ing there in half armour lol. jimin was sleeping in his armour...

and 0 was just sitting there switching his armour lights on and off...

=.= wake up!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Moved all our stuff to the performance area and followed up with photo taking session at the garden.

0 was like the main attraction there because his armor was so freaking awesome although he was called kamen rider robot monster and whatnots by the little kids lol, and jimin's white armor was also popular too. Ww feels very honored to be standing with them for photos! Ww (was feeling fat and too big to be yurine even with all their praises) the only disappointment was we didn't much get a full team photo because when rain was there ms wasn't and the other way round, and it seemed like rain went off to take care of luggage and ms wasn't interested in taking photos as he looked like he wasn't cosplaying.

i managed to get these from saerom on 18th nov!!! LOVE HER!

photos with random kids!

the 2 armoured extradinaire

and finally an almost complete group photo T_T

We wrapped the whole session with a group photo at 12, before we walked to the performance area.

Karas was the 4th to perform, but I was too damn nervous even though it wasn't even a competition. Rain was the emcee and he joked about emphasizing on karas when announcing the performance. 다섯,내,새,둘,하나 , Aja karas! And i managed to get the video from Arsene! All credits to WonderCosplay.

And a finish hugs! お疲れさん!Realised i didn't coordinate too well with rain T___T i'm sorry... but still, I got an armor hug ♥

0's armor totally got destroyed by jimin, one of the plates fell out when jimin flipped over 0, but whatever it is, everyone was just awesome!!! Whee~~!!!

0 took off his whole costume since it was pretty tattered and we went over to the other side to find Saerom. There was a long sailormoon performance going on and we waited till everything was over before we all gathered on stage for the results and group photo. 0 stayed behind because he didn't want to appear in his retro shining purple inner costume ( I thought it looked pretty cool though!) There wasn't much deliberation - the results were announced immediately by rain.

And last but not least, there was also the best costumes award going to the persona team. Very unique costumes (even though I prefer saerom's) I'd say this team would be the next best to get the award - I think they probably didn't want duplicates in the seeds so everyone gets a prize.

The best performance went to saerom's rg Veda (sorry I'm skipping a lot of teams) - I love their costumes!!! We looked at it in closer proximity an it was just very intricate. All I can say is their performance was as beautiful as them - and I'm glad they got the best performance award in the end, even though I rooted for them to be the representatives.

The representatives this year was monster hunter, their costumes were freaking awesome, though I've never seen it in game. Saerom's right, in the end it's hard to triumph over a monster Cosplay, especially if the monster gorilla is as well done as this one - it's huge!! And they even have wing activation for the final strike... Woo! Definitely waaaay better than our monster hunter.

thanks to val for the group picture :D:D

After the whole thing, we packed an moved our things back to the rehearsal area, where there was a short introduction of all the overseas cosplayers and Korean wcs representatives. There was even a Q&A session for the attendants and they asked about our age... Zzz it wrapped up with a short social interaction before we went off to change out and get ready for dinner at 6pm.

some more pics before we left~!

team singapore hurhur

and with shizuoooooooooooooooooooo

Dinner was BBQ!! Haha! Seriously they really attended to or every requests, and I felt so embarrassed and overwhelmed by their hospitality. took some last minute photos before we departed. got this video from caruto!!

rain becomes jungu for a while without his glasses

ms~

and jimin, the gogi dinosaur, who helped us finish almost ALL our 3rd batch of meat. gosh... the things he can stuff in that frame of his...

we then said farewell to everyone and left to take our return bus to seoul's hostel. while waiting for the bus... hee~~ommm manyong-lee is so cute!!!!!!!!! thank you so much for the trip and you know what, even if it didn't happen, i'm still very very happy for the thought *_* 감사감사

and the 2 translators, hyun jin and yong jin (his english sounds so much like shawn, i was mistaken when he called the next day. booboo...)

Yong jin accompanied us all the way, and even helped us find our hostel as well as bought us a dozen of krispy kremes (which became my breakfast for the next few days). 。・°°・(＞_＜)・°°・。he lent me his jacket over the past 2 days when I was at everland and I almost lost it, I'm such a scatterbrain and I don't take care of people's things properly (/ _ ; ) thank goodness it was found in the end (if nit I was considering making one for him when I go back) hmmm. Yes more bakwas for you guys next time ok!?

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Day 1 - Arrival at Everlandoh gosh our flight was full of funny events, first we saw this extremely big sized guy whom frank claims doesn't want to eat because he couldn't put the tray down

but after that he seems to prove us wrong!

being too bored, we camwhored with val

the food wasn't that great... this was dinner

and this was breakfast before we landed

when we queued to check out, this vietnamese auntie kept sticking to my back - as if someone's gonna cut her queue. URGHH we tried various means to let her know shes standing too near, like i would accidentally step back on her, or frank would scare me and i'd bang into her, or i'd just keep turning back to look at her but she didn't get it!! GOSH. so i ended up being 'molested' by her many times.

and then the young vietnamese girl cut our queue and took her shoes off while she was queuing... all these viets drove me nuts.

finally arrived at incheon for 1.5 hours later than scheduled because of the very long queue while checking out. Yong jin and arsene-San were already waiting for us since 7 so it was kind of embarrassing we underestimated the hours for so long. Arsene-San also treated us to lunch, and he took about 4 hours to drive us over because the jam was just too horrifying... (takes 1 hour normally)

halfway there arsene-san treated us to lunch!!!jajangmyeong rocks...

Arrived at everland with pretty much nothing to do, but I was very happy to see saerom!! She was dressed as Halloween rikku an her partner, Seulgi, was dressed as halloween Paine. Seulgi is seriously thin... In a good way! Her stomach is straight flat *envious*

We were told that some Korean stars were supposed to come at 3, so me, saerom, Seulgi and Val went to wait at the rehearsal area. We managed to see lee dong gun and Andy from shinhwa, but I didn't really know them and my main reason was Kim nam Gil. What was scary was the Line of fans waiting to see their idols were all obasan from japan. Wow. so more photos.

we were so bored saerom suggested playing with her 'which stars do you look like' application - guess who i looked like?~?~?~

We waited for more than half an hour and as Seulgi and saerom had been complying since the morning, their legs were aching so we went back for a short rest. I later realized that even kim nam Gil didn't come at the end... Oh well... T_T we did do some interesting things in the room though while seulgi and saerom changed to their rehearsal costumes...

met lee-san and he 'totally forgot' who i am. so now he calls me 'tanaka-san'. so badddddd i'm gonna haunt him with the bumseonlee song.

At night about 8 when almost all the participants arrived there was a rehearsal taking place. I was, however, taken on a small side trip where I was supposedly able to see 'magic'. Although the magic wasn't quite what I had expected, it wasn't that bad in the end and I think I might have experienced something better than the rehearsals. =X

When we went back I was surprised to see the rest of the karas team!! HELLO HUGS PLEASE! I miss all of you guys!! Rain (jungu), 0(seungyong), ms (Myungseon). I can't believe I'm gonna be performing with such an awesome team!! Still can't believe it even now. Ww. So that was when I started my first rehearsal all the way to about 2am. There was a bit of difficulty in communicating the timing and actions, and Yong jin helped save the day! For our first full rehearsal i got everything wrong (duh) and they realized I need more drilling 。・゜・(ノД`)・゜・。 so we went out and rain and 0 Drilled the whole timing into me and forced me to listen to the mp3 over and over again. My actions were still considered pretty relaxed, it's ms and rain who had to do like 20,000 flips when we repeated the practice over and over again - whoops. During practice, I also got to know jimin, white karas, who created his famous 'why' expression 囧rz. Ooh, I got to try fanta during one of our breaks - jelly orange fizzy drink, very nice! 0 seems to like pudding, when he heard there was jelly he got one for himself too. Yong jin tried this sparkling chocolate, not so bad :DAround 1-2am I had to 偷懒for a while and help a friend, when I came back rain was 'Oye practice!'-ing me already, meanie... 디가니가!

did these pictures via scrapblog.com actually... heehee very interesting right?

After we were done with the last few rounds, we gathered around to have a mini drinking session with the wcf staff (manyong, lopez, Yong jin, Hyun jin), monster hunter and persona team (we were the only ones still practicing) and they all loved the bakwa We brought. More for you guys next time! ♥

Monday, October 18, 2010

my little brown extension that i ordered from taobao arrived, but i didn't use it because it wasn't very brown at all. instead i used one of the existing browner extensions i owned and sewed it on the doll.

i shall cut the hair later. it kinda creeps me out now though. hmmm... maybe she wants to keep the hair long...? don't know why i'm reminded of dong li huo che when i see her...

back comb + hairspray ftw. i even got into trouble with my mom because i left hair fibres all over my living room. oops. one mistake to not commit for cosplaying - making a mess and not cleaning up, because it inconveniences others. even knowing that, my cleaning is never clean enough for my mom. oh well.

i feel so sian when i finished one and know that there was another side that i need to cut.

and when i finally finished both sides, i tied on the long extensions and clipped the ponytails on the main wig to see how it would look like:

not bad! reminds me of when cutepetz did her shugo chara character... and stella's rachel from blazblue. quite similar style no?

i also bought a permanent marker and drew on the eyes for her goggles. had to trace it from my pc screen first.

blue paint was found from some colored glue, and white paint was correction liquid. lol.

then i pasted it on the inside of the goggles to complete the prop.

then on sunday i worked on the freaking skirt. UGHHHH i hate the skirt!!! i made so many mistakes and it took me a much longer time to make it.

#1 cutting from a thin cloth#2 worked on the thin cloth and tried to iron it#3 pleated and sewed on the wrong cloth and had to unsew and pleat and sew again#4 bought another thicker cloth to work on and pleated and sewed it on both ends#5 undid one end of the sew because i needed to paste the red ribbons on it

#6 undid the other end of the sew because i needed to input the brown parts

#7 resewed both ends and realised i should use the thin piece as skirt lining so i undid one end of the sew and sewed on the thin layer#8 thin layer was too long in width, had to cut it away and also in height - folded it in and sewed on. uhu glued all the yellow parts to cover the sides of the brown so it won't flail uglily when i wear it.

#9 sewed a hidden zip for the outer layer and realised i sewed the zipper on the wrong side!!! resewed this side#10 sewed the other side for the zipper and realised my red ribbons didn't get folded in nicely, and my right side was longer than my left side!!! untacked and resewed#11 sewed on a hook and realised i measured the distance wrongly, so i sewed on 2 hooks =.= lazy to remove the wrong one...

and then it's finally done... gosh... tedious. never knew this simple skirt can cause me so much trouble zzzz